St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-14
AMONG THE STRIKERS.
Pointers From the Strikers Picked
In 1T Eea6nuacteSS.

Up at headquarters.
There were no new developments of
any great significance among the Strik-
ing carpenters and bricl1layers yeSter-
day. 1t was rainy day, and unfavora-
bleeven TO non-union men in the build
ing line, so practically all building ope-
ratiOnS were at standStiH.
Among the contractors who are said
to be working Hnion men on the nine
hour rule are MeSSrS. Armit, Patterson,
Smith, Brand, EngeIbrecht, Banmeister,
LighthauSer and COvingtnn. Twenty
seven men went TO work yesterday for
Mr.. Smith on his jobs near the fish
hatchery.
AtLaEor hall it was reported that
Contractor Grant got two carpenters
from Minneapolis to go TO work on the
South st. Paul Stock Exchange build
ing, but that they found their way TO
Labor hall and applied for admission
into the St. Paul union. The architect
in charge of the work on building
being pat up ON Pleasant avenue by
Kingsley & Spence, it was said, pulled
off eight SScabS" as unfit to do the
work.
The committees say they find no
skilled carpenters at work. except in
working alongside of about twenty COM
mon laborerS, who have been picked to
TO BRIDGE THE WORK
over the strike Barnet & Record state
to the walking delegates that they are
losing $500 per day owing to the strike.
and the thing must come to some set
tlementSoOn." Part of the crew that
was working on A. B. Wilkes hotel
building in South st. Paul came in yes
terday: Brand is still working a full
union crew, nine hours, on the building
of the Harris Manufacturing company
in North st. Paul.
Eight painters were said to have been
discharged by Taylor 81 Craig yesterday
because they refused to sign al agree
ment that if the building trades would
come out Wednesday they would stay at
work. When they went to work
in the morning the foreman
met them with the document
and instead of signing they walked up
to Secretary Blakely'S desk in Labor
hall and told their story. Mr.. Craig de
MES that they were asked to sign any
agreement, but he admits that he told
them if they intended to go out to-mor-
row they might as well do so at once.
Mr.. Taylor said he had not seen a
painter yesterday.
A gentleman named Morrison hired
six carpenters to go to work on two Jobs
on Arundel street, and another named
Kenyon secured four men to start in on
Rice street job Wednesday, all the
men to be union men and work on the
nine-hour rule.
Nj. z. Ryan says the Stonecutters will
not come out, and, as a general rule, the
contractors are slow to believe the other
building trades will follow the carpen-
ters and bricklayers.
BBICKLAYERS MEET.
A long meeting was held by the brick
LAYERS union yesterday, and the COM
mittee reported that no bricklayers
could be seen at work upon any build
ing. Some of the bricklayerS said they
would leave the city before they would
be coerced into working for longer
time than nine hours, and ac-
cordingly about twenty went
to Minneapolis, and many
more started for Omaha and Duluth to
20 to- work upon the new hotels.
Secretary Hanson, of the contractors
board OF trade, says no meeting Of the
contractors viii be held until the meet
ing of Thursday, which is for the cleo
ton of officers. \ story went around
that the contractors were trying to get
men through the employment bureaus,
and by private methods, from other
cities, but the contractors themselves
waive reply to this by saying they don't
need to do anything of the kind.
Members Of the other building trades
signify their intention of coming out to
morrow if the contractors do not make
some concession. They will do so, they
say, because the nine-hOur movement is
in danger, and must be universally
sustained.